T. Harry Williams
Historian, Author
1909 – 1979
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Who was T. Harry Williams?
Thomas Harry Williams was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death at the age of seventy. A popular faculty member, Williams is perhaps best known for his American Civil War study, Lincoln and His Generals, a "Book of the Month" selection from 1952, and his Huey Long, the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., 1970 winner of both the National Book Award in History and Biography and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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- Born
- May 19, 1909
Vinegar Hill Township - Also known as
- Thomas Harry Williams
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Employment
- Louisiana State University
- Lived in
- Wisconsin
- Died
- Jul 6, 1979
Baton Rouge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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